WeeklyPost Processing Challenge 8th June 2018

Since GC and Michael are unavailable this week, I offer this image for the challenge. Edit it as you wish.

 

The photo was taken just after sunrise at Hendry's Beach in Santa Barbara, California.

Nice image, Glen. I used LR to adjust shadows / highlights. Then NIK's Color Efex Pro 4 for Detail Extractor and Tonal Contrast.

Nice Bill, I never pre-visualized my photo looking anything like that! By the way, that's my dog peeking in on the left border.

Lovely image, Glen - I love your dog peeking in! Here is my attempt :)

Since GC and Michael are unavailable this week, I offer this image for the challenge. Edit it as you wish.

 

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Hi Glenn, thanks for posting and with a good choice. I've no access to my computer but looking in with a tablet....GC.

I love all your images. I am just starting and I learned a lot working on this.

Glenn, thanks for putting this image up for challenge this week. Since I found its appearance and atmosphere somewhat otherworldly, I decided to amplify that. Initially, I adjusted tonality using levels in PSE15. Thereafter, in Color Efex, I used curves to boost the reds I noticed in the original. Back to PSE, I added some tonal tweaks using the dodge tool and added some selective sharpness using the sharpen tool.

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Sandy, what steps did you take to get this result?

Sandy, what steps did you take to get this result?

Cropped to emphasize the water / ocean more. Increased the color temp and saturation, kicked down the hilights a bit, sharpened a touch. Was looking for "lateish" afternoon. I tend to tweak quickly in small increments till I like the result - as with cooking, add & taste till it is "right" after the fact may not remember everything I did.

In Lightroom +clarity,vibrance, saturation, dehaze, warmed white balance and magenta tint raised shadows lowered highlights +blue saturation -luminance. In photoshop unsharp mask added another dog.

My approach is similar to Fred's in that I converted to black and white. I used tonal contrast in NIK ColorEfex to start with to increase the tonal contrast in the highlights, and then converted to black and white in SilverEfex. I did additional dodging of the highlights of the reflected clouds, and added toning.